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The Magnificent
Trio That Can Help You To Get "Knocked Up!"
- Calcium (three servings
a day) may actually boost your ability to conceive. You can find this
important bone-builder (and baby-builder) not just in dairy products,
but also in fortified juices, tofu and soy products (including that
super-tasty snack, edamame), broccoli, leafy green vegetables, sesame
seeds, and canned salmon with bones. Yeah, if I forget to take the
calcium pills every day I can actually feel it being sucked out of my
bones. Ain't I a drama queen?
- Manganese (about 2 mg a
day) is important for good reproductive function — in other words, a
baby-making essential. Spinach, carrots, broccoli, whole grains, nuts,
bananas, and raisins are all great sources of manganese. I just
want to know why Popeye didn't have any kids then? Or did he? Was
Sweet Pea his or was Olive Oil a single mother?
- Zinc is zee key for
conception — if you are severely deficient in zinc forget about getting
knocked up. Get your full share (about 15 mg a day) via a supplement or
by eating turkey, beef, lamb, pork, chicken, almonds, beans, wheat germ,
yogurt, oatmeal, corn, eggs, fortified breads and cereals, and cooked
shellfish, especially oysters. Just remember that Oysters also have a
lot of Mercury in them and are gross bottom feeders. And they can give
you parasites. Nice!
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Let's start at the
very beginning ... Getting knocked up. My friend who works in the
prenatal department at UCLA told me this; "If you want to get pregnant wait
until 2 weeks after your period and then start having afternoon sex (4:00pm
- 7:00pm) every day for two weeks. He said to make sure to make the
setting romantic and to have slow to medium sex. He said the faster
and harder you go the less likely you are to make a baby. It has something
to do with I have no idea what, but that's what he said! We did just
that and wham bam thank you Sam and I yam what I yam! All knocked up
with no place to go. It worked for me. Doesn't mean this will
work for everyone though.
Be perfectly clear
on this though; if you plan on in vitro-fertilization expect to give birth
to at least two kids if not an entire litter. I have no idea what it's like
to be a cat and I don't want to find out. But I must say, if I knew
how amazing it would feel to be a mother before I got pregnant, I probably
would have jumped at the chance of being a cat and giving birth to a bunch
of little human kittens. Lucky for the rest of the world I just had
Baby Nose.
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